Lauren Croft

• Providing legal advice to clients in time sensitive and 'highly charged' environment
• Quickly building trusting relationship with client and managing relationship through legal process.
• Conducting thorough assessments of each clients unique situations to develop legal strategy
• Ensuring compliance with Court Orders and relevant rules and procedures.
• Legal research
• Interpreting, applying and advising on relevant legislation
• Case Management:
• Managing a large caseload of files, ensuring timely, cost effective and efficient progress.
• Drafting and filing legal documents, including contracts, consent orders, statement of claim, defence to statement of claim.
• Preparing clients for court appearances, explaining procedures and expectations.

Ensuring compliance with relevant processes and procedures

Ensuring compliance with Federal Circuit Court and Family Court Rules 2021.

Preparing comprehensive briefs for barristers and collaborating on strategy

Taking accurate minutes of all clients conversation, meetings, and Court events.

Preparing comprehensive letters of advice

Drafting settlement documents.

• Drafting Legal Documents:
  Prepared comprehensive legal documents, including divorce petitions, child custody agreements, prenuptial agreements, and modifications to existing orders.

• Continuing Education:
  Engaged in continuous learning through legal education courses to stay informed about changes in family law regulations.

• Handled confidential and sensitive information with discretion and tact.
• Managed executive calendars, scheduling meetings and appointments and coordinating travel arrangements to optimize time.
• Organized and coordinated conferences and monthly meetings.
• Conducted research and analyzed data to provide detailed reports on various business topics.

• Developing, implementing and maintaining the Authority Board and sub-committees’ annual meeting calendars and work plans

• Developing meeting agendas

• Attending meetings and drafting minutes of those meetings.

• Advising body corporate as to various obligations under the Unit Titles Act 2010 (the Act) and other relevant rules and legislation.
• Providing direct support to the Chair of the Board and sub-committees to ensure that their duties are fulfilled and that their individual needs are met
• Carrying out the instructions of the Board and its sub-committees, assisting in implementing corporate strategies and giving practical effect to their decisions • Ensuring that information flows within the Board, to and from the Board and its sub-committees, and between Board members and the Authority’s Executive
• Facilitating Board and sub-committee member inductions and professional development programs
• Coordinating reviews of Board and sub-committee charters and policies
• Coordinating evaluations of Board and sub-committee performance • Organising Board meeting logistics including venue bookings, transport and catering • Negotiating with stakeholders to gain commitment to projects, and delivery of activities to meet defined timelines. • Coordinating the management of highly complex contentious or sensitive information. • Representing the organisation when dealing with external stakeholders where required.

- induction of staff

- leadign and motiviating team

- staff tranign and development

- education and assessmetn in accordacne with NZQA testing